The blue glass tower looks like a little sister to that of the Samsung headquarters, visible at the end of the street which dominates Gangnam, the teeming business district of Seoul. As a nod to the almost limitless ambitions of Wrtn Technologies, the South Korean gem of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which has taken up residence there.
The start-up founded by Seyoung Lee, 27, and several classmates fresh out of university occupies the top floor of a brand new building in the south of the capital of Asia's fourth largest economy. But it is already looking beyond the peninsula, with an office opened in Tokyo last November.
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We want to become the first super app powered by AI in Asia
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explains to Le
Figaro
Seyoung Lee, head of around a hundred employees, in his first interview with a foreign media.
Repeat the feat of Naver, the Korean Google
Launched a year ago while riding the ChatGPT wave, the Wrtn (pronounced
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written
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) application has experienced spectacular growth with already 1.5…